Samla bilas is known in the Marshalls from several specimens found at Kwajalein and another at Ailinglaplap. All those we have personally seen at Kwajalein were on the leeward seaward reef at depths of 15 to 40 meters, two during the day and two at night. Stan Jazwinski photographed the Ailinglaplap specimen on hydroids at a depth about 10m in a reef pass off Katiej Island.
Below is the Ailinglaplap specimen on its prey hydroid.
The closeup below shows the flattened cephalic tentacles.
Unnoticed when the picture was taken was the tiny unidentified eolid just above the Samla. The resolution in the inset closeup is not quite clear enough to positively identify it.
Created 8 January 2007
Updated 3 August 2021